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Who Invented the Chocolate Eggcream?

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Jerome Lemelson and Gordon Gould were both born in New York City in the early 1920s. Many in the scientific community snickered when Gould produced his spiral notebook–which he had taken to a candy store in his New York City neighborhood in 1957 and had notarized–and filed his claim as an inventor of the laser.

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Business Report: Garden State Growth Zones Aim to Lift New Jersey’s Cities

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The company provides office management, fully integrated cloud-based field force automation software and marketing services solutions to the pest control, HVAC and plumbing industries. The company’s plans call for the creation of 35 new jobs to support its significant growth over the past few years. Marathon Data Operating Co.,

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

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Data centers are crucial to operations across countless sectors, from retail to information technology, government to biotech, logistics to engineering. “Hybrid clouds took off, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service vendors really came into their own. By Bill Trüb.

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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BlackRock chose the region for its new Innovation Hub comprised of 1,000 jobs. Music-streaming service Pandora chose the region to expand its East Coast presence with 250 new jobs. is expanding their Midtown software innovation center for 300 more jobs, and Salesforce expanded its regional headquarters in Atlanta with 600 jobs.

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New York Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Commercial District Revolving Loan Funds: ESD has capitalized over $600,000, making funds available to five community-based corporations to administer and make loans to small retail and service businesses in their service areas. Research and development, high technology, service and other non-retail commercial enterprises. Eligibility.

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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In New York City, Long Island and Westchester County, businesses must be start-ups or high-tech companies. The project will directly create 3,324 new jobs with $216 million in wages. In 2007, the statewide economic impact from film was estimated at $242 million; by 2013, this had grown to $3.5

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Advanced Manufacturing Industry: Dynamic Advancements

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Situated in Upstate New York, Oswego County is located centrally to New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Toronto and Montreal. Each industry will hire two types of personnel: newly trained but inexperienced individuals for entry-level positions and experienced employees looking for new opportunities.